Indeed, the topic is very debatable.

A lot of dream and supposedly OBE experience is based on person's perception and EXTREMELY biased cause of person's beliefs.

There's a stigma attached to dreaming: anything that person sees in his/her dreams is *not* real. In a world dominated by science people dont respect dreams.

At the same time if you alter the words a little bit and say that you "do OOBE" or "astrally project", you can impress much more people then by saying "I lucidly dream"....

Of course people who learn from books on "OOBE" want to see blurry pictures, want their OOBEs to start in their room. They want/expect to be glued to their body... As a result, that's what is happening!

I believe there's *VERY* few people who experience genuine OOBEs or Astral projection and a lot of people who are misguided....